I realize that.
It's funny how things work out in Life. All the little ironies.
Take St Clement Mary's rather shockingly "unorthodox" flight of fancy about Germany and Protestant "Christianity." That bothered me for the longest time. For decades. St Clement devoted so much of his life to trying to bring Protestants into the Fold. And then he comes out with a line like that? But now I think that I know exactly what he was driving at. There are some really creepy things at the heart of what's called "the human side of the Church."
Yes, there are Catholics who would poke fun at St Alphonsus' opinions on the prevalence of Venial Sin at least among the married saying the same thing I said here in an opposite vein about priests' being amateurs in some areas of Life. But
there are some "Novus Ordo conservatives" who say that Traditionalists are "just as bad" as the Modernists.
And then too, look at Christ. The Pharisees could have said with some appearance of justice and truth, "You sound just like the liberal Jєωs who wanted to lower standards of ritual purity in the days of the Maccabees."
We can't be deterred by the fact that the good A might seem to some like the bad B.
This is this. That is that.